St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-21
Council Listens to More Mysterious
CHARGES From That Doubtful Per-
sonage, John Anderson.
The Trades Assembly Prefers Charges
Against Engineer Rinker---What
He Has to Say.
An Opinion by the City Attorney in Ward
Work Damages---The New Eight i
Hour System. ~
The Burgess Lateral Line---Convict
Labor in the Tenth Ward---General ].
Council Doings. j
CRANK OR COWARD?

Who is John AndersOn?--AnOth
fHis Unique Letters--TO be In!
yestiSated.
The mysterious John Anderson again
bObbed up in council yesterday, by
means of communication which was
slipped into the city clerks desk by
nobody knew whom. 1t will be remem-
bered that at the last meeting dirty,
mispelled scrowl was sent in, signed
John Anderson, secretary taxpayers
union," charging the city admnlistra-
ton with having collected some $4,000
for licenses which had never been re-
ported. The matter was referred to
the committee on taxes. which held two
meetings, and after failing to find out
who John Anderson was, reported to
dismiss the whole matter. Yesterday
another equally dirty, miSpelled Scrawl
was slipped III the same way, signed
John Anderson, assistant secretary
taxpayers union" but in the same
writing. 1t was as follows, yerbatum
ct literatum:
about weeks ago your attention was
cald to the fact that money belonging to
the city had been collected by order Of
the mayor by Hill Ward Kelley and
several other officers and this money
kept by the mayor and his connected
trends and your hon body saw fit to refer
the matter to one of your Committees
WHARF it will sleep until the end of time
if some honest member dos not Call for
report we are able to give long list
to the committee but think that we are
paying members now sufficient som to
warrant them in devoting a little time
to the mattor we will mention a few
cases before closing and will say that
Supt Helm of the police knows many
more we will also state that Commits
SiOner Hoy knows of moneys been taken
but for som good ReSon best none to
himself he kept the man on the force
that tuck $4,000 from one person and
varius'Other sons from diferant persons
whu paid it for police pro-
lection as follows Pieter Horff Billy
Raymond $500O0 Mrs. Qady OTTO Bow
man Moore u Dunn, now Dunn IL
Somebody else) CIV. w. Brown, 3 sa
sted, Fred Crapon. Bly, Mills, Mr.. SanOtf,
1870 Goth ave. north. These partyS have
paid from one hundred to five hundred
Dollars we will give you Plenty more if
you will show aney disposition to Pun
ish the man that has organized the Sis
TEN of RObing the People we would also
you to Have the mOnny collected from
the Sporting Houses and deposited to
the credit of the mayor takeen and put
in to the City tresurir."
Aid. Lawrence moved the reference
of the entire matter to a special commit
tee of five for investigation Aid. Mills
said he did not believe in this. If any
one could say who John Anderson was,
he was willing to go on with the inveSti-
CATION, but as it was he moved to file
the communication until John Ander-
son should come forward and show who
and what he is. Aid. L'Herault was in
favor of an investigation, and said there
were enough detectives to hunt down
and bring out the coward who was evil
IDENTIFY concealing himself while making
this serious charge. The matter was
finally deferred until the committee re-
ported. The committee on taxes re-
ported as has already been published,
and the Lawrence resolution was
adopted. The chair appointed the fol-
lowing as the special investigating COM
mittee: Aids. Cloutier, BarrowS, Phil
lips, Cooley and Gibson.